Initiative

Open Know-Where

Open Know-Where is defining a mapping standard for documenting and sharing information about the location of manufacturing facilities and capabilities globally.

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Open Know-Where covers everything about where to make things.

Enable discovery

Improve the discovery of manufacturing facilities, equipment and capabilities within the manufacturing industry and maker communities.

Get access

Enable someone who wants to access a manufacturing facility to discover who they should be contacting. Improve relationships and collaboration between users and networks.

Leverage curated data

Enable better curation and management of data and tools to extract the maximum value from it, so it can be collated, organised, queried and filtered.

Enhancing Knowledge Accessibility

This initiative is particularly interested in the accessibility of knowledge relating to making things useful in humanitarian and development situations. The specification is designed to be adopted by anyone who collects or shares data about manufacturing capabilities, including government, non government organisations (NGOs), aid agencies, mapping communities, makers and platforms.

Resources

Open Know-Where Specification on PubPub
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Links, videos and files

Open Know-Where

Deck of slides shared during the IOP Community Call on November 28, 2023.

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"Hagaha Open Know-Where" (Open Know-Where Specification) Report [Somali]

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"Open Know-Where Specification" Report [English]

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Open Know-Where Specification

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Open Know-Where Launch Slides

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Open Know-Where Press Release

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Open Know-Where launch webinar recording